Five weeks of running Gromfest competitions at one of the best skate and snowboard camps in the United States was a blast, but now it's over. As the summer comes to a close there's only one thought in my head...what's next?
While we wait for me to figure all that out it would be good to recognize those kids and teens that dominated this weekly competition. They had to have all the skills...rails, pyramids, step ups, bowls...there was no feature that wouldn't be used. If you want to ride for a living nowadays you have to be well-rounded and that's exactly what Gromfest tested.
Each of the 1st Place winners and Coaches Choice candidates will automatically get to advance to to the finals next summer at Whistler. As for those that took 2nd and 3rd? We hope that they'll consider competing in a Gromfest comp this next year or submitting an audition tape (see
www.gromfest.org for more details).
While we wait for the next Gromfest comp however here are the winners of the Great Northwest Gromfest Summer Preliminaries 2006...
Session 4
1st Place - Tim Lyons
2nd Place - Ben Radow
3rd Place - Richie Conklin
Judges Choice - William Lucas
Session 5
1st Place - Ryan Gustafson
2nd Place - Mac Baldner
3rd Place - Pat Thompson
Judges Choice - Garrett Vick
Session 6
1st Place - Ladd Forde
2nd Place - Aaron Saperstein
3rd Place - Blake Paul
Judges Choice - Andrew Trovato
Additional Judges Choice - Willis Kimbel
Session 7
1st Place - Ruiki Masuda
2nd Place - Sam Mowry
3rd Place - Brock Crouch
Judges Choice - Nathan Jacobson
Session 8
1st Place - Dylan Dragotta
2nd Place - Bryan Totti
3rd Place - Casey Pletz
Judges Choice - Josh Gibson
